UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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avow555

avow555
Irons said:
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this guys, but I think I've solved the problem of the Barnacles not spawning for people in Solo. After being fine all last night, today the one at Merope 5C refused to appear. I got out and had a look around in my SRV and noticed that my ship appeared to have the same wave signature as the Barnacle.
I moved out of the area, dismissed my ship and then logged out. On logging back in, the Barnacle then respawned.

Hope this helps those that are having issues.
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Regular POI don't spawn half the time unless you do a landing cycle, barnacles same issue.
 

_Dastardly_

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Ozric said:
Funny how a lot of people have been more than happily enjoying this part of the game the way it is for around 1 year now. It's only the newcomers who want the instant gratification.

The clues are, as has been pointed out many many times, within the game framework and as for "a lot of wild speculative theories with (often) no way to test them"... Welcome to science :D Go and tell that to a theoretical physicist, who come up with a lot of our theories about space, because don't forget that most of what we "know" about space is all based upon theories that can't be tested other than by trying to make what we know fit the theories we have.
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Well I've been playing since 1 week after original release so I'm not a newcomer. And at least a theoretical physicist knows that the solution they are looking for IS out there for sure.
 

DustyArne

DustyArne
_Dastardly_ said:
Well I've been playing since 1 week after original release so I'm not a newcomer. And at least a theoretical physicist knows that the solution they are looking for IS out there for sure.
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Hope so,

Not that we are looking for something Frontier hasn't written code for yet.. lol.. (Sorry for breaking the role play for a moment)
 

Soban

Soban
LordZoltan said:
I just use the 'Full Site' link at the bottom of the page :)

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Spoilers work, then, too ;)

Edit: on a general 'smart-device-user' point: the 'request desktop site' functionality is gradually becoming obsolete as more and more websites become 'responsive'. UA-detection is a dark art and prone to problems!
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Thanks for the tip, never paid attention to that one link...
And even on computer version of the forum, I'm out of rep :D
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Patau82

Patau82

Jorge

Jorge
I haven't seen anyone post about this new Galnet article yet. Apologies if someone already has and I've missed it:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/56a20ad69657ba196961ba05

Freelance Report: Leading Scientist Expresses Doubts
22 JAN 3302
Yesterday, Professor Ishmael Palin called upon independent pilots to deliver meta-alloys – produced by the newly discovered 'barnacles' in the Pleiades Nebula – to Obsidian Orbital, suggesting that the material could be the cure for the technological virus spreading through inhabited space. But Professor Violet Belbin of the Xenological Research Institute has expressed doubts:

"I would caution against assuming that this material is the answer to our problems. The nature of these 'barnacles' is not fully understood. They could be a form of alien life, and harvesting them could have unforeseen consequences. The Xenological Research Institute is sending a team to Maia and asks that Professor Palin takes our concerns into consideration."

Pilots have already started delivering cargo holds full of meta-alloys to Professor Palin's base of operations at Obsidian Orbital.

Commander Stateira 'Starcloak' Eleshenar

Zandu Science Journal | Interstellar Press
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Edit: First time I hear of this "Xenological Research Institute", or Professor Violet Belbin for that matter.
 
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Ozric

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Ozric
Jorge said:
I haven't seen anyone post about this new Galnet article yet. Apologies if someone already has and I've missed it:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/56a20ad69657ba196961ba05



Edit: First time I hear of this "Xenological Research Institute", or Professor Violet Belbin for that matter.
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That's a player submitted article isn't it? I'm guessing that because of the commander name at the bottom and the fact that I don't think we've heard of the Xenological Research Institiute.
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
I hadn't noticed the article header prefixes before - I guess 'Freelance Report' is for Cmdr submitted news.

Looks like a new thing - maybe based on the feedback they asked for about Galnet.
 
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_Dastardly_

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Ozric said:
Do they? Dark Matter :)
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Dark matter is a possible solution to the question of why the outskirts of galaxies, including the Milky Way, rotate much more quickly than would be expected based on the gravitational pull of visible matter alone. The answer to that question IS out there. weather it's dark matter or invisible space octopuses playing with the spiral arms.
 

Ozric

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Ozric
rizal72 said:
It's a player submitted post. RP.
By Commander Stateira 'Starcloak' Eleshenar
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And I'm guessing they're in some way associated with the people who are attacking the commanders delivering the Meta-Alloys. Their justification for it in the official news, rather than the seedy pit.
 

Jorge

Jorge
Ozric said:
That's a player submitted article isn't it? I'm guessing that because of the commander name at the bottom and the fact that I don't think we've heard of the Xenological Research Institute.
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That's what I thought as well when I saw the signature. However, FD are known to edit Galnet article submissions and remove/change whatever doesn't fit the Elite universe lore. So I assume that the fact the Xenological Research Institute appears in the article means one of two things:
  1. The XRI already existed in ED lore, so the CMDR that submitted the article either knew about it and included a mention, or didn't but FD inserted it into the article because if fit.
  2. The XRI didn't exist in ED lore, but the CMDR submitted it and FD thought its existence fit within the ED universe, so they left it in there.
 

Patau82

Patau82
Ozric said:
And I'm guessing they're in some way associated with the people who are attacking the commanders delivering the Meta-Alloys. Their justification for it in the official news, rather than the seedy pit.
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the cmdr seems to be a regular poster on galnet submission thread, so probably nothing to do with them
 

Technotrout

Technotrout
Michael Brookes said:
That's not true, it would continue, but along another path.

Michael
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Isnt the bottom line here, that Michael is telling us that this is a major crossroad in the game?

As human players have already shot at and sold the resources from the barnacles, we are either already screwed or I guess that the split in the path will be determined by the success of the current community goal and only then.

Michael Brooke's seems like a well-contemplated writer and I doubt that the main behavioural pattern of a critical power factor in the game (the beings behind the barnacles) will be determined by a relatively small group of players (those who participate in the current CG). Last Onionhead appeal drew around 1500 contributors and with 1.4 million game copies sold the community goal bunch (including me self) does not exactly constitute a majority, so to let this group decide on a substantial part of the future game is somewhat undemocratic and in production terms rather unlikely.

or am I seeing this wrong?

Anyway, I am torn. I really want to participate in as many CGs as I can, but also understand (from Kerrash, I think) that alien attitude in the game will be influenced by how we react to the encounter.
 

rizal72

rizal72
Jorge said:
That's what I thought as well when I saw the signature. However, FD are known to edit Galnet article submissions and remove/change whatever doesn't fit the Elite universe lore. So I assume that the fact the Xenological Research Institute appears in the article means one of two things:
  1. The XRI already existed in ED lore, so the CMDR that submitted the article either knew about it and included a mention, or didn't but FD inserted it into the article because if fit.
  2. The XRI didn't exist in ED lore, but the CMDR submitted it and FD thought its existence fit within the ED universe, so they left it in there.
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It's very much easier than that:
knowing the debate going on about the Barnacles, and what MB said a few posts ago about that there could be different paths depending on what player will do about it, the post fits perfectly: it expresses the doubts of some part of the community about the Barnacles/Meta-Alloys affair.

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Technotrout said:
Isnt the bottom line here, that Michael is telling us that this is a major crossroad in the game?

As human players have already shot at and sold the resources from the barnacles, we are either already screwed or I guess that the split in the path will be determined by the success of the current community goal and only then.

Michael Brooke's seems like a well-contemplated writer and I doubt that the main behavioural pattern of a critical power factor in the game (the beings behind the barnacles) will be determined by a relatively small group of players (those who participate in the current CG). Last Onionhead appeal drew around 1500 contributors and with 1.4 million game copies sold the community goal bunch (including me self) does not exactly constitute a majority, so to let this group decide on a substantial part of the future game is somewhat undemocratic and in production terms rather unlikely.

or am I seeing this wrong?

Anyway, I am torn. I really want to participate in as many CGs as I can, but also understand (from Kerrash, I think) that alien attitude in the game will be influenced by how we react to the encounter.
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IMHO you are right: it's a crossroad.
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Dakron Nova said:
To be fair this isn't intermittent for me, and FD have not issued any guidance I can't even get any confirmation that they will always show under any circumstance. Still as long as you're doing fine thats great.
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I have to say that unless you are fully confident that barnacles spawn correctly all the time on your system, I would postpone any searching in other nebulae.
It's hard enough to find these things, even when they spawn correctly.

At the moment we have a hint from MB that barnacles exist in one or several other nebulas than the Pleiades.
Finding them, even when they spawn correctly all the time will be difficult. The added frustration of not being sure, makes it futile.

I don't think this is the 'intended next step' in the story anyway. The time for the next nebula will come.
 

Jorge

Jorge
Ozric said:
And I'm guessing they're in some way associated with the people who are attacking the commanders delivering the Meta-Alloys. Their justification for it in the official news, rather than the seedy pit.
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It's possible, but I doubt it. The message and tone of the article could be translated to this:
"We suggest it may not be ideal for you to harvest barnacles and bring them to stations until we have a better understanding of their nature"

Compare this with the message thus far delivered by those blockading Maia:
"PEW PEW!!!"

Not quite the same "handwriting", if you get my meaning :)
 
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